Antonyms for crow

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kroh

Phonetic Transcription : kroʊ

fail

Definition of crow

Origin : Old English crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is perhaps based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, American English, but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). Crow's foot "wrinkle around the corner of the eye" is late 14c. Phrase as the crow flies first recorded 1800.

verb brag, exult

Example sentences :

Methinks that Gascony is too small a cock to crow so lustily.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

If anything should happen, the call will be three croaks of a crow.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

She is not so infallible a markswoman, but that she might shoot at a crow and kill a pigeon.
Extract from : « Maid Marian » by Thomas Love Peacock

His flight to the crow's nest had been an effort to escape its fury, but it had followed him there.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling

This she did for some time, until the cock in the village began to crow.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

The Crow had got too much of a start, they said, considering that the wind was in her favour.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Anyhow, I think I have been wise to risk it, and follow the Crow.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Parry, too, clapped his hands, and felt as if he wanted to crow.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 » by Various

She bore it to the kitchen, read it all, and returned to crow vaingloriously.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

And when the hat turned around there was a face under it as black as a crow.
Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Synonyms for crow

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